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Biocon Day 1
Arizona is bloody dry. Apparently they are more humid than Colorado, but Colorado is semi-arad. Arizona is really bloody arid. There's exposed sand/soil, no lawns, and lots of cactus. There are mountains around the town, so it feels little like a transported Colorado.
The shuttle ride from airport to hotel was 90 minutes long. We're way the hell out of town. As one attendee here said, "this is a hotel for people who don't like people". It's a fifteen minute drive to the nearest supermarket.
This is important because I have a fancy room with BBQ, DVD player, surround-sound, fridge, etc. We're going to have a hackathon pissup there tonight. Even the shower is fancy, with multiple nozzles and a control panel to change pressure, frequency of rotation, and god knows what else. It's very futuristic. All this with desert outside and bare mountain hillside looming on the horizon.
It's great to see the conferences group again. We went out shopping (buying steaks and booze for the party tonight) and had dinner together. I only see them two or three times a year, and it's always fun. We get to bitch about management, budgets, and all the stuff that coworkers bitch about, but also catch up with each others' families--how're the kids, my brother had a heart attack, I'm now a vegetarian,
The terminal room is all OS X machines. They even have one of the new iMacs. Sweet. These are awesome computers, and we're working to get the same thing at OSCON. The networking and computer guys are really on the ball.
--Nat
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Arizona is dry? (Score:1)
What's really dry is when you break down just outside of Death Valley, Nevada and half to walk half a mile to get to a trailer where you ask where the nearest town is. ("This is it: Amargosa Valley, Nevada!")
I've traveled the Southwest a lot, so I know what you're talking about.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:Arizona is dry? (Score:1)
Re:Arizona is dry? (Score:2)
-- ask bjoern hansen [askbjoernhansen.com], !try; do();
Re:Arizona is dry? (Score:1)
And so it is! Oops. But it's on the border.
As I recall (and this was many years ago), my head was buried in the Star Wars Roleplaying Game Gamemaster Handbook, so maybe I wasn't paying attention as to where the border was.
After a google search, I've got a map that shows the park is almost completely within California, with one corner in Nevada. It's right on the border, so when we got out of the park and our car broke down, we were in Nevada.
And it was dry!
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers